- Author: Trisha E Rose
Published on: November 10, 2016
Basil and tomatoes in October! I continue to be surprised with lovely tomatoes, basil and parsley mid-October, well parsley not really but my basil was put in early spring and as you can see the bushes are still quite large. This year I kept pinching back the blossom tips which has resulted in wonderful basil for my family to share. The Purple Cherokee tomatoes just gave us a tangy BLT for lunch and the black cherry tomatoes with candy appeal are going to our daughter's family later today. Parsley just keeps coming, so much so that this year it went into a pot rather than the raised bed where it continued to grow and grow last year, not a tidy plant and doesn't play well with others, but very useful in my kitchen.
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by Perry Polk
on November 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM
I do much the same thing in the summer, but with a much less sophisticated process. We usually plant about 20 basil plants as we love pesto pasta. My wife freezes pesto all summer for winter soups and pesto pasta. Naturally as the summer progresses, the plants begin to bolt. When they get out of control, I take my hedge trimmer and chop them down to about half their size. Two weeks later, or so, we have nice fresh leaves.
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